AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (01/23/89)
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 19:37:20 HST >From: System Administrator <tsouth@PRO-PAC.CTS.COM> >Subject: Bye bye Billion >[...] >What say you think about doing a few good things... Applelink - >Personal Edition was a helluva start, but still the majority of the >resources on that forum are for the Mac, not the Apple ][ user. Excuuuuuuse me? <baffled look> The Mac software for accessing ALPE is not out out Beta test yet! (I use ALPE all the time as a Forum Consultant for the Apple II Development forum.) >What to do? I really think you should purchase the APDA and have >some hiring-fest with some of the fanatics that are abundant in the >support industry. Then, put them in control of this forum. I'd buy >almost ANYTHING that Uncle-Dos signed his name to! I'm sure that a >large portion of Applers feel exactly the same way. Apple already _did_ bring APDA back in house. (I don't think they "purchased" it, because I think they owned it the whole time.) As far as _this forum_ (INFO-APPLE / comp.sys.apple) goes, it is unmoderated--everybody is in collectively in control of the content. I read A2-Central regularly and respect Tom Weishaar and his opinions of various products, but A2-Central is not intended to be a Consumer Reports for the Apple II industry. I would never buy something _just_ because Uncle-DOS likes it, but reading an explanation of why that product is better than its competitors is a different story. I _hope_ that a large portion of Applers feel more _that_ way--but if they're going to follow _somebody_ blindly then Uncle-DOS is not a bad choice. >[...] [I still shiver from watch the Woz say that no one is ready for >the amount of information available on CD-Rom's! Heck my 80 megger >gets taxed to its limits as it stands!] (When did he say that, by the way? I missed it.) I won't stand in the way of larger storage devices, and I certainly want one myself, but sometimes I have my doubts about what the quality of published CDs is going to be. Having an 80-meg hard drive that you've organized yourself over a period of time is one thing, and buying 550 Megs of info for $8 to $10000+ is something else. Somebody has to _proofread_ and verify all that info! Scary, eh? I was reading reviews in _CD-ROM Review_ or something like that last year, and the reviewer had done spot checks on a big database on CD-ROM and found a disturbingly high fraction of errors. >Todd South >UUCP: {nosc, cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.COM} > ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth >ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-pac!tsouth@nosc.MIL >INET: tsouth@pro-pac.CTS.COM - BITNET: pro-pac.UUCP!tsouth@PSUVAX1 --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons